Trying to get attention, yes, but they were also there in support of moving to a single payer healthcare system, like Canada's.
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Among the crowds assembled outside the Supreme Court in anticipation of a ruling on the Affordable Care Act, two women stood out: they were belly dancers. They weren't holding posters or shouting in protest. They were actually belly dancing. But rest assured: they had a political message.
Russell Mokhiber, the founder of Single Payer Action, a group that's calling for a complete elimination of insurance companies and a switch to a single payer system like those in Canada or the U.K., says one of the women was his wife, Angela Petry and the other was her friend, Jennifer Carpenter-Peak. Both are belly dancing teachers.
"The idea was to draw attention to the cause," Mokhiber says. "When you have belly dancers, people pay attention."
It looks like they did:
